“Well, according to quantum mechanics, all atoms of the same type are “the same” anyway, and even if that weren’t the case, your body wasn’t the same atoms when you were 18 as when you were 17, as you ate/drunk/inhaled lots of atoms and pissed/shitten/exhaled/puked lots of other atoms.”
I think John would be pretty justified in his concern that you were bullshittening him after you tried to sell him both of these (superficially) mutually exclusive explanations.
“Whatever. Is my body still made of cells with my DNA? Is my brain still made of neurons?”
If the premise was that John was capable of getting to this question, it wouldn’t be a good example of the point. The answer in this case would be either “Yes” or “No”.
I think John would be pretty justified in his concern that you were bullshittening him after you tried to sell him both of these (superficially) mutually exclusive explanations.
If the premise was that John was capable of getting to this question, it wouldn’t be a good example of the point. The answer in this case would be either “Yes” or “No”.